Isaac (he/him) is the Deputy Director of Photography at Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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He is also a FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot living in Saratoga Springs, Utah (south of Salt Lake City).

Before working at Deseret News, Isaac held a part-time position as the senior photographer for Utah Valley University’s Marketing and Communication department from 2021-2024. He filled the rest of his schedule with freelance assignments, generally commercial clients and companies to create images and video to fit their marketing, advertising, and website needs both on location and in the studio.

Isaac has also worked as a photojournalist at the Daily Herald in Provo, Utah, for four and a half years. He was a staff photographer from 2016-2017, chief photographer from 2017-2018, and collaborated with reporters, designers, editors, and freelance photographers as well as managed all of the newspaper’s visual demands as the photo editor and chief photographer from 2018-2020.

Born and raised in Piqua, Ohio, he graduated with a degree in Visual Communication in 2016 from Ohio University's photojournalism program. 

Isaac’s work has earned numerous local, regional, national and international honors. His work has been recognized by Pictures of the Year International (POYi), The National Press Photographer’s Association’s Best of Photojournalism (NPPA’s BOP), the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, the Associated Press, College Photographer of the Year, and the Ohio News Photographers Association. While at the Daily Herald, Isaac was awarded best photographer in Utah three times by the Utah News Photographer’s Association (2017, 2018, 2020) and once by the Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (2020).

Isaac’s worked has appeared in publications such as ESPN, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Arizona Republic, in addition to several state and regional newspapers throughout the United States.

When not behind a camera, Isaac can be found mountain and road biking, skiing, cheering earnestly for the Cleveland Cavaliers (and now the Utah Jazz, too), or exercising his life-long passion of singing in choir and theatre ensembles.